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Some of the 
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Concord 




Some of 
the things 
to he seen 
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TEXT PREPARED BY GEORGE TOLMAN 
Stcretary of Concord yiniiyutirian Society 



, s^^ REGtlVED V 



H. L. WHITCOMB 

CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS 
NINETEEN HUNDREIJ THREE 



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NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 




MONUMENT SQUARE. 




'N September 2 (O. S.), 1(^35. the (General 
Court of the Colony of the Massachusetts 
Bay ordered that there should be a " plan- 
tation at Musketaquid. and that there shall 
be six miles of land square to belong to it," 
and that the place should be called Concord. 
The name Musketaquid, meaning simply the grass-ground, or 
meadows, was probably already well known, for it is mentioned 
by William Wood in his •' New f'.ngland's Prospect." printed in 
England in 1633. I'he place was, or had been, the site of a 
considerable Indian village, and perhaps for that very reason 



appeared a most desirable spot for English settlement. It was 
well watered by two considerable rivers, which were fnl) of fish, 
and which flowed through a broad alluvial plain, divided only 
by a low range of sandy hills, and almost entirely cleared of 
wood, though the low hills that surrounded it were well wooded 
and accessible. The population of the colony was then rapidly 
increasing by immigration, and although no settlement had yet 
been made away from tide-water, it was still evident that such 
settlements must be made before long, and desirable locations 
were eagerly sought. These meadows, the largest expanse of 
cleared and cultivable ground that had yet been found in the 
limits of the colony, attracted the attention of Simon Willard, 
a man of great ability and decision, and it appears quite cer- 
tain that it was at his instance and through his reports that 
the company that came hither was formed. 

Of this company, the Rev. Peter Bulkeley, an English 
clergyman of great learning and ability, who had been de- 
prived, for non-conformity, by Archbishop Laud, of his living 
at Odell, Bedfordshire, England, was the spiritual leader, along 
with the Rev. John Jones. The latter, however, remained here 
but a few years. The land for the new settlement was fairly 
bought from its Indian owners, perhaps at a bargain, or as a 
Concord poet of later days has sung : — 

" A few more jack-knives might perhaps have made 
A bit less sharp our worthy fathers' trade ; 
A few more blankets might have shown their hearts 
"Warmer by some degrees. The casuist starts 
This point of conscience ; I the question spurn ; 
The kindliest bosom, exile shall make stern. 
And days of danger, nights of want and gloom, 
Brush from the sensibilities the bloom." 



But at any rate the land was bought and paid for, and its 
savaj^e grantors were so well satisfied with their bargain, that 
in all the Indian wars which followed, Concord was almost 
the only town in the entire colony that never suffered from an 
Indian raid upon its territory ; though, to be sure, one farm 
was raided and one man was killed in " the New Grant," an 
addition made to the town some years after its settlement, and 
later set off again. 

It is commonly held that it was this peaceful mode of set- 
tling its Indian question that gave to the town its name of 
Concord, a name unknown until that time as the designation 
of any town, although it has been stated by later inquirers that 
it was the name that had been given by Peter Bulkeley, long 
before, to his old English residence at Odell. 

It may be of interest here to mention that the literary 
history of Concord begins with its political and .social history, 
and possibly even antedates it. It is maintained by some 
writers that the William Wood, whose " New England's Pros- 
pect" was printed in 1633, was identical with the William Wood 
who died in Concord in 1671. This may not certainly be 
proved, but even if we have to give him up, we can fall back 
upon the Rev. Peter Bulkeley as our earliest author, whose 
book of sermons, preached to his Concord flock, was printed 
in London, under the title of " The Gospel Covenant," in 1646, 
and is styled "the first-born of New England." The sermons 
are hard reading for us of this age, but in their own time were 
highly appreciated, and passed through several editions. 

But it is not the purpose of this little book even to epito- 
mize the history of the town, literary or otherwise, but only to 
serve as a brief guide to the chance visitor or the transient 



tourist, who may perhaps choose to purchase it and carry it 
away with him as a souvenir of what we hope may prove to 
him a pleasant and memorable visit to one of America's prin- 
cipal shrines. So we shall presuppose his acquaintance with 
Concord authors, and with Concord history at least so far as 
the broader lines thereof, and shall content ourselves with point- 
ing out the principal places of interest. 

The visitor, however he come to Concord, will naturally 
start on his tour of observation from the Monument Square, 
which, it may be remarked, is exactly the geographical centre 
of the original six miles square granted to the first settlers. 
In the centre of the square stands the Soldiers' Monument, 
a granite obelisk bearing on one side of its base the names of 
the forty- two sons of Concord who perished in the Secession 
War of forty years ago. On the southwest side of the square 
a bronze tablet marks the site of the old Town house, which 
was also the County Court house, from whose turret rang out 
the bell that called the farmers to arms in the early morning of 
April 19, 1775. Later on that day the soldiers set fire to the 
building, only to turn to and use their best efforts to extinguish 
it again when they learned that the rebels were using it as a 
storehouse for gunpowder. The old Court house has long 
passed away, but the vane that swung above it for a century 
and a half, with the date 1673 carved upon it, is now preserved 
in the Public Library. Another tablet, a few steps down the 
Lowell Road, marks the site of the dwelling of the Rev. Mr. 
Bulkeley. The northwest side of the square is occupied by 
a row of buildings now kept as a hotel, a part of which was 
used in the early spring of 1775 as a storehouse for the arms, 
provisions, and other war material that the patriots had been 

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SOT.DrKKs' MOMMKNT (ClVII. WAK). 



busily collecting through the preceding winter. This, however, 
is scarcely a distinction, for the town had become practically 
the only commissary depot of the patriots, and almost every 
hcuse and barn contained a part of these valuable stores, the 



destruction of which was the object of General Gage's unsuc- 
cessful raid of April 19. 

A walk of about half a mile up Monument Street, to the 
north, brings the visitor to the Old North Bridge, the scene of 
"Concord Fight." And, by the way, if the visitor desire to 




BATTLE GROUND. 

Stand well with Concord people, he will never allude to this 
afifair as the Battle of Concord; it is always Concord Fight, 
here. In 1775 the river was crossed by only two bridges, the 
second, or " South Bridge," being a mile and a half further up 
the stream. At the North Bridge, the road on the further bank 
of the river crossed the meadow, and after reaching the firm 



ground divided into two, followini,' parallel with tlie stream in 
both directions. The point at which tiie I'rovincial forces gatli- 
ered, on the brow of the hill, three hundred yards beyond the 
bridge, is marked by a tablet set in the wall, and by a boulder, 
w ith a suitable inscription, 
in the grounds of the late 
Edwin S. Barrett, a great- 
great-grandson of Col. 
James Barrett who com- 
manded the patriot force 
on the iQlh of April, '75. 
A few rods to the north is 
visible the house then 
occupied by Major John 
Buttrick, who gave to his 
troops the first order ever 
given to American rebels 
to fire upon the soldiers 
of their king. The bronze 
statue of the Minute Man, 
by Daniel C. French, " the 
most artistic statue that 
stands out of doors in 
America," dedicated by minite man. 

the town on the centennial anniversary of the fight, stands 
on the spot where this "all-irrevocable order" was given. On 
the hither side of the stream stands the monument erected 
by the town in 1836, and bearing the following inscription: — 





KF.VOI.ITION \KV MOMMKNT (1SJ56). 



i>i) tin- ii)ll> of April 1775 

was made ihe tiist forcible resistance t<i 

British Aggression. 

On the opposite hank stood the American Militia 

Here stood the Invading army, 

and on this spot the first of the enemy fell 

in the War of that Revolution 

which gave Independence to these United Stales. 

Ill gratitude to (lod and in the love of Freedom 

This monument was erected 

.\.l). iS3r). 

The following stanza from Kmersoii's hymn, sung at tlie 
dedication of this monument, is carved upon the pedestal of 
the statue of the Minute Man : — 

IJv the rude bridge that arched the finod. 

Their Hag to April's breeze unfurled. 
Here once the embattled farmers stood, 

.\nd tired the shot heard round the world. 




ULU NUKTII HRIDUL. 



A stone in the wall, within a little enclosure, marks the 
grave of two British soldiers who fell in this first skirmish and 
were buried by the side of the road, the very first of that great 

army of Britons that 
England sacrificed 
in her fruitless en- 
deavor to subjugate 
her rebellious colo- 
nies. 

Just south of the 
Monument grounds, 
at the end of a long 
avenue of once 
stately but now de- 
caying trees, stands 
the house to which 
Nathaniel H a w - 
thorne, sixty years ago, gave the name of " the Old Manse," by 
which, misnomer as it is, the house has been ever since known, 
at home and abroad. The house was built just before the 
opening of the Revolutionary War, by Ralph Waldo Emerson's 
grandfather, the Rev. William Emerson, then minister of 
Concord, and from its window the reverend gentleman beheld 
the fight at the bridge. Very early in the war he joined the 
American army as a chaplain, but was not fated to see much 
active service, for he died of fever in October, 1776. Many 
years afterward a monument was erected to his memory in the 
Hill Burying Ground in Concord. 

After Mr. Emerson's death, the Rev. Ezra Ripley, who had 
succeeded to the pulpit and had married the widow of his pre- 




■OLD MANSE. 



decessor, occupied the house until his deatli in 1841, after a 
pastorate of more than sixty-three years, and the house is still 
owned by his heirs. During; Dr. Ripley's life the house was 
not only the intellectual centre of Concord, but was a very nota- 
ble centre of light and learning in the whole intellectual world 
of New Kngland, for the great Unitarian movement that so 
powerfully affected the New England church and all later New 
England literature, came about during his pastorate, and found 
in him an earnest and active promoter, so that his house was 
often the meeting place of many of the thinkers and idealists 
of the time. Here, too, Ralph Waldo Emerson and his brothers, 




Ei.isiiA joNKS noirsE. 
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grandchildren of Mrs. Ripley, often came, and it was here that 
many of Emerson's early poems, as well as his first published 
book. " Nature," were written. But it is frorni Nathaniel Haw- 
thorne's connection with the house, even though such connec- 
tion was very brief, that the Old Manse, as he named it, is best 
known. Here he wrote the " Mosses,'' his fist impor»r ' work, 
the one that foreshadowed his greater literary efforts, nd that 
showed to the reading world that here was an American writer 
of imaginative literature who easily "led all the rest." 

Nearly opposite the Manse is " the Elisha Jones house," 
now occupied by the venerable Judge John S. Keyes, who has 




OLD WRIC.IIT TAVERN. 
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all Concord iiistory 
at his fingers' end^. 
Though many addi- 
tions ha\e been 
made to the origi- 
nal house, the build- 
ing may still fairly 
be called the oldest 
house in Concord, 
for the portion 
erected by John 
Smedly in 1644 still 
stands. Near one 
of the doors of this 
house may still be 
seen the hole made 
by a British bullet 
fired at Elisha Jones 
as he was coming 
out of his door on 
the m o r n i n g of 
Concord Fight. 

Retracing his steps to Monument Scjuare, the visitor will 
see on the corner of Main Street the old Wright Tavern, built 
in 1747, the headquarters of the patriots in the early morning 
of April 19, 1775, and later in the day occupied by the British 
officers. Here Major Pitcairn is said to have made his famous 
boast, as he stirred his morning dram, that before the day was 
over he would stir the damned Yankee blood as well. Perhaps 
he never said it, but at any rate the Yankee blond rctis stirred 




FIKST PARISH MKKTINC. HdUSK. 



effectually. The First Parish Meeting House stands next, 
built in 1 90 1 to replace the ancient structure that had been 
destroyed by fire in the year 1900. The old building, erected 
in 17 12, was the meeting place of the first Provincial Congress, 




CONCORD ANTIOUARIAN HOUSE. 



in October, 1774, and a tablet on the edge of the green 
commemorates this fact. Daniel Bliss the great-grandfather, 
William Emerson the grandfather, and Ezra Ripley the step- 
grandfather of Ralph Waldo Emerson had been successively 
the ministers of this parish; R. W. Emerson himself had some- 

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times preached from its pulpit, and from the doors of its old 
house of worship the bodies of Thoreau. Hawthorne, Emerson, 
Judge K. R. Hoar, Sherman Hoar, and many others of Con- 
cord's most famous citizens, were borne to the grave. 

The house of the Concord Antiquarian Society stands near, 
on the left side of Lexington Road. This house was occupied 
in 1775 by Reuben Brown, a saddler, who made cartridge 
boxes, belts, and the like for the patriots; and the British 
soldiers, on the morning of April 19, in endeavoring to destroy 
the worthy saddler's stock of war material, managed (quite un- 
intentionally, for they were under strict orders not to injure 
private property,) to set fire to the house. This was the only 
private house that was damaged by them in Concord, and the 
fire was quickly extinguished. Since 1886 the house has been 
occupied by the Antiquarian Society, and contains a large and 
varied collection of old china, furniture, and relics, all accumu- 
lated in Concord, among them the sword of Col. James Barrett, 
the musket of one of the British soldiers who fell at the North 
Bridge, the cutlass of 
a grenadier of the 
Toth British regi- 
ment, and other 
relics of Concord 
Fight. One room in 
the house is devoted 
entirely to Thoreau 
relics. 

A few rods be- 
yond, on the right 
hand side of the road, 





ORCHARD Ht)l!SE." 



Stands the home of 
Emerson, where he 
lived from 1835 until 
his death in 1882. It 
is a comfortable look- 
ing and unpretentious 
mansion, of the archi- 
tectural style of the 
early part of the nine- 
teenth century, partly 
hidden from view by 
a group of pines. Mr. 
Emerson's study, the 
room at the right of the entrance, remains just as he left it, and 
the entire external ap- 
pearance of the house 
is unchanged from 
what it was when the 
master was living 
there. Here was 
passed the greater 
part of Mr. Emerson's 
life after he aban- 
doned the narrow 
limits of the pulpit 
and took for his con- 
gregation the think- 
ing men and women 
of the world, and here 

all his later and ma- concord school of philusupuy. 

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I.nriSA M. AI.f'OTT. 



turer works were written. No house in America has sheltered 
so many of the world's literary men, for almost every person 
of note who has visited America has found that his visit would 
be incomplete without seeing and being welcomed in his own 
home by the greatest of American writers and thinkers. 



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A little further on, on the left side of the road, is the 
" Orchard House," once the home of the Alcotts, and the birth- 
place of the Ct)ncord School of Philosophy, in 1879. Later 
tlie little chapel on the hillside, somewhat to the rear of the 
house, was built, and therein the later sessions of the school 




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were held. 'I'he " Wayside," the next house bej-ond, is per- 
haps better known as the residence of Hawthorne for the last 
twelve years of his life, than from its connection with the 
Alcotts, who had lived there several years before Hawthorne, 
the years that gave to Louisa Alcott the experiences and inci- 
dents that form the basis of her delightful stories. But the 

stories themselves were 
written in the Orchard 
House, or "Apple Slump,"' 
as Louisa preferred to call 
it. Hawthorne built the 
square tower of the Way- 
side, and from his study 
in the tower sent forth all 
his latest books. The 
larches which shade the 
hill between the Orchard 
House and the Wayside 
were planted by Haw- 
thorne, and the path worn 
among them by his restless 
feet may still be traced. 
George Par.sons Lathrop, 
whose wife was Rose Haw- 
thorne, lived for a time at Wayside, a writer whose early death 
removed one of the most promising of the younger American 
men of letters. Daniel Lothrop, the publisher, was a later 
owner of the place, and here still resides his widow, who. as 
Margaret Sidney, has acquired merited fame by her charming 
juvenile books. 




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MERIAM S CUKNEK. 



Possibly the 
Concord (irape is 
known to more 
people than Con- 
cord Literature, 
Art, or History. 
It originated in 
the garden of 
P^phraim W. IJull, 
the next place be- 
yond the Wayside, 
and the original 
vine, whose prog- 
eny covers nearly 
every land, still 
flourishes there. 

Lexington Road, as the visitor will at once notice, runs 
close to the base of a low sandy ridge from Monument Square 
to Meriam's Corner, about a half mile below the Wayside. 
This is the road over which the British force entered the town 
on the morning of April 19, 1775, and over which they made 
their so far orderly retreat before noon. After the skirmish at 
the bridge, the Provincials, knowing that the troops must in- 
evitably soon retreat, forbore to assail them further where they 
were, but marched through " the great field " so-called, behind 
the ridge, and waited at the point of the hill to attack them in 
flank. The manceuvre was successful, and at this point a sharp 
encounter took place, in which seven of the enemy fell. From 
this point the retreat became a rout. The story of it is familiar, 
and needs not to be entered upon here. A tablet in the wall 



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marks the spot. The " Virginia Road " joins the old Billerica 
Road a few rods from this point. On it stands the house in 
which Henry D. Thoreau was born, but as the house has been 
moved from its original location and greatly altered, it is only 
the most enthusiastic or the most leisurely of visitors who will 
care to take the extra mile walk. 

A w^alk around by the old Billerica Road from Meriam's 
Corner until he comes to the car track, and then following the 
car track on Bedford Street toward the left, will take the tourist 
over the most uninteresting mile and a half of road in all Con- 
cord, and bring him to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery at the point 
furthest from the town, but not far from the end of Ridge Path, 
on which are the graves which he will most care to see, that of 
Emerson, marked by a large boulder of rose quartz, with this 
inscription : — 

RALPH WALDO 
EMERSON 

BORN IN BOSTON MAY 25 1 803 
DIED IN CONCORD APRIL 27 1882 

THE PASSIVE MASTER LENT HIS HAND 
TO THE VAST SOUL THAT o'eR HIM PLANNED 

the couplet being a quotation from Emerson's own poem, " The 
Problem ; " that of Hawthorne, surrounded by such fragments 
of an arbor-vitae hedge as the zeal of souvenir-seeking tourists 
has allowed to remain standing; those of the Alcott family 
nearly opposite the Hawthorne lot, and of the Thoreaus almost 
adjoining. Below, on the hillside, are the graves of the Hoar 
family, recognizable afar off by the rather ungainly structure of 
dark granite that marks them. Traversing the length of the 
cemetery, the tourist will come out on Bedford Street, a few 

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rods from Monument 
Square from which 
he started. The old 
1 1 ill l!uryin<;j (Iround, 
abutting on the 
Square opposite the 
end of Main Street, 
contains many an- 
cient and curious 
epitaphs, the oldest 
bearing the date 




Emerson's grave. 



1677. Here are 
buried Col. James Barrett and Major Joim JUittrick, the patriot 
conmianders in Concord 1 -ight ; the Kev. William Kmerson and 
his father-in-law, the Rev. Daniel Bliss; Dr. John Cuming, 
whose bequest to Harvard College was the foundation of the 
Harvard Medical School ; John Jack the Negro, whose epitaph 
is the most famous epitaph in America : — 

God wills us free, ni;ui wills us slaves, 
I will as (loci wills, Cod's will he done. 

HK.KE MKS IIIK HODV OK 

JOHN' JACK, 

A native of Africa who died 

March 1773, aged aliout 60 years. 

Tho' born in a hind of slavery 

He was born free. 

Tlio' lie lived in a land of lilierly. 

He lived a slave, 

Till by his honest, tho' stolen labors, 

He acquired the source of slaver)-, 

Which pive him his freedom ; 

Tho' not lonK before 

Death, the prand tyrant, 

(lave him his finiil eman(i|>alion. 

And set him on a footing with kings. 

Tho' a slave to vice. 

He practised those virtues 

Witnout which kings are but slaves. 

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I'UIJLIC LIBRARY. 

lie libraries. Besides 
its 35,000 books, the 
library contains paint- 
ings by Edward Sim- 
mons, Stacy Tolman, 
Edward W. Emerson, 
Robertson James, and 
Alicia Keyes, and 
busts by Daniel C. 
Erench, Erank E. El- 
well, Walton Ricket- 
son, and Anna Hol- 
land, all Concord 



A few rods from the 
Square, at the junction of 
Main and Sudbury Streets, 
is the Public Library. The 
building was erected and 
given to the town, with 
funds for its maintenance, 
a generation ago, by Wil- 
liam Munroe, a native and 
citizen of Concord. The 
town itself pays for the 
books and the salary of 
the librarian. A special 
alcove is devoted entirely 
to books of Concord 
authors, a feature unique, 
we think, among all pub- 




TIIOREA U-ALCOTT HOUSE. 



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HKNKV 1>. TIIORKAU 




MAIN STKKET. 



artists, as well as a number of paintings and busts by 
others. 

Continuing up Main Street the visitor will see, just before 
reaching Thoreau Street, the house in which Henry D. Thoreau 
lived for the last ten years of his life, and in which he died. 
Afterward the house was purchased by Louisa Alcott, who lived 
there for a while with her father and her sister, Mrs. Pratt. 
Just around the corner, on Thoreau Street, lives Allen French, 
author of the successful novel, " The Colonials," and of several 
books for boys. On Elm Street, a few rods beyond the junc- 
tion of Elm and Main, in a modest house on the edge of the 




THciKKAl'S CAIRN. 

half south of the 
village, is reached 
by way of \\'alden 
Street. Here, if 
the visitor is for- 
tunate, he may 
tiiul. without a 
guide, the spot 
where Thoreau 
built his house in 
the woods, and 
which he cele- 
brates in the most 
char m i n g a n d 



river, lives Frank B. 
Sanborn, biographer, 
essayist, social scien- 
tist, and poet ; and in 
his house not long 
ago. died ^^'illiam E. 
Channing. •■ the poet's 
poet." who for many 
years had made his 
home with Mr. San- 
born. 

There are some 
excursions that the 
tourist may make fur- 
ther afield. Walden 
Pond, a mile and a 




RESinENCK OK K. H. SANBORN. 
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best known of his books. It is marked by a simple cairn of 
stones, which easily escapes observation. On the Barrett's 
Mill road, in the northwest part of the town, two miles and 
a half from the village, is the old home of Col. James Barrett, 
to which, on April 19, 1775, the British commander sent two 
companies of soldiers on a predatory errand that after all did 
not brilliantly succeed. Not far from there, on the old road 
that runs round the base of Annursnuc Hill, and that was 
anciently called " Ye Hog-pen Walk," is the site on which stood 
one of the buildings used by Harvard College when that insti- 
tution was temporarily located at Concord during the siege of 
Boston. The Hog-pen Walk perforce became the College Road, 
and is so called to this day. But journeys to these places, and 
to the countless spots in the woods and on the river, that have 
no peculiar historical or legendary associations, are beyond the 
reach of the transient visitor of a day, for whom this book is 
written. 

Copies of Tablets to be found in different parts of the Tow^Dc 

On ti panel cut in F.i^i^ Rock. *^. 

ON THE HILL NASHAWfOcK 

AT THE MEETING OF THE RIVERS 

AND ALONG THE BANK.S 

LIVED THE INDIAN OWNERS OK 

MUSKKTAOUID 
BEFORE THE WHITE MEN CAME 

On a stone l>y t/ic road, nortlnocst of the A/iinitc Afa)i. 

ON THIS FIELD 

THE MINUTE MEN AND MILITIA 

FORMED BEFORE MARCHING 

DOWN TO THE 

FIGHT AT THE BRIDGE 

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Frovinctal Compress Tahlet. 



nfesT PROVINCIAI. CONr.RKSS 

i)K |)KI.K(;ATKS I'KOM THK TOWNS OK 

MASSACHUSKl-rS 

WAS CAI. I.K.I) BY CUNVKNTIONS OK 

THK PKOHI.K TO MKET AT CONCORD ON IHK 

KI.KVKNTH DAY OK OCTOBER 1 774 

THK DKI.ECATES ASSEMBLED HERE 

IN THE MEETINi; HOUSE ON THAT DAY 

AND ORC.AMZED 

WITH loHN HANCOCK AS PRESIDENT 

AND BENJAMIN LINCOLN AS SECRETARY 

CALLED TOC.ETHER TO MAINTAIN 

THE RIC.HTS OK THE PEOPLE 

THIS CON CRESS 

ASSUMED THE (loVERNMENT OK THE PROVINCE 

AND BY ITS MEASURES PREPARED THE WAY 

KOR THE WAR OK THE REVOLUTION 



Ott a panel iit <i stone 'lUest of the Three-Arch hridi^':. 

ON THIS FARM DWELT 

SIMON WILLARD 

ONE OF THE F-OUNDERS OK CONCORD 

WHO DID GOOD SERVICE KOR 

TOWN AND COLONY 
KOR MORE THAN KORTV YEARS 



Tablet at Mfriarn\i Corner. 



THK BKITISH TROt)PS 

RK.TKEATINC, KRoM THE 

OLD NORTH BRIDC.E 

WERE HERE A1TACKED IN KLANK 

BY THE MEN OK CONC<JRD 

AND NEICHBORINC. TOWNS 

AND DRIVEN UNDER A HOT KIRK 

TO CHAKI.K.STOWN 



On a bronze plate on Lowell SU-eet, near the Square. 

HERE IN THE HOUSE OF THE 

REVEREND PETER BULKELEY 

FIRST MINISTER AND ONE OF THE 

FOUNDERS OF THIS TOWN 

A BARGAIN WAS MADE WITH THE 

SQUAW SACHEM THE SAGAMORE TAHATTAWAN 

AND OTHER INDIANS 

WHO THEN SOU) THE RIGHT IN 

THE SIX MILES SQUARE CALLED CONCORD 

TO THE ENGLISH PLANTERS 

AND GAVE THEM PEACEFUL POSSESSION 

OF THE LAND 

A.D. 1636 



On the slate in the rimll of the Hill Burying Ground. 



ON THIS HILL 

THE SETTLERS OF CONCORD 

BUILT THEIR MEETING HOUSE 

NEAR WHICH THEY WERE BURIED 

ON THE SOUTHERN SLOPE OF THE RIDGE 

WERE THEIR DWELLINGS DURING 

THE FIRST WINTER 

BELOW IT THEY LAID OUT 

THEIR FIRST ROAD AND 

ON THE SUMMIT STOOD THE 

LIBERTY POLE OF THE REVOLUTION 



Toivn House Tablet. 

NEAR THIS SPOT STOOD 

THE FIRST TOWN HOUSE 

USED FOR TOWN MEETINGS 

AND THE COUNTY COURTS 

I72I-I794 



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III. IVright's Tavern 

IV. Concord and the Telegraph 
v. The Story of an Old House 

VI. John Jack the Slave and Daniel Bliss the Tory 

VII. The Plantation at Muskelaquid 

VIII. The Events of April Nineteenth 

IX. How Our Great-Grandfatbers Lived 

X. Indian Relics in Concord 

XI. " Graves and IVorms and Epitaphs " 

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